totalitarian-of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; totalitarian theory and practice; operating in a totalistic fashion.otalitarian. 1. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical.
Photo gallery: The 1933 assassination of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak. Eighty years ago this week, Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was shot in an assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt during an event in Miami, Fla., in 1933. Mayor Cermak would linger for weeks before succumbing to his injuries. Link to this photo.
Two presidents were injured in attempted assassinations, also by gunshot: Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th President) and Ronald Reagan (the 40th President). With the exception of Lyndon Johnson, every president's life since John F. Kennedy has been threatened with assassination.incoln was shot once in the back of his head with a .44 caliber Derringer pistol by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while watching the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and two guests.